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Apple to Soon Take Up to 30% Cut From All Patreon Creators in iOS App (www.macrumors.com)
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[–] vogi@piefed.social 82 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

That’s how the system works. You don’t expect Walmart to not get a commission when you sell something at their store.

30% is reasonable. DEAL WITH IT.

Don’t like it? Make your own phone and platform.

Opening up the comments on macrumors never disappoints me :)

[–] lofuw@sh.itjust.works 0 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago)

See? Apple users are as dumb as a sack of diapers and deserve to be taken advantage of accordingly.

[–] cupcakezealot@piefed.blahaj.zone 20 points 2 days ago (1 children)

its also not how it works... at all. walmart would buy wholesale from a supplier not directly from the seller

[–] MountingSuspicion@reddthat.com 2 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Apple is being terrible here, but Walmart now has an amazon-like storefront where third parties can list their own products basically entirely apart from Walmart but using their site. Not sure what the percent cut Walmart takes is, but Walmart might never actually buy from a company selling on their site.

[–] sakuraba@lemmy.ml 1 points 1 day ago

they saw the money amazon got and wanted some of it

[–] Passerby6497@lemmy.world 2 points 2 days ago

Apple is reselling services, just like Walmart wholesales products, clearly

[–] willington@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 2 days ago

The bigger the asset, the more sacrosanct are that asset's interests.

That is a system of nearly unlimited milking of anyone who is not themselves represented through a multi-hundred billion dollar asset.

Fighting this in the business or legal arena is a complete waste of time. Those battlefields are favorable to the biggest assets.